Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Humor is wit and love.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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